American Field Service, an international student exchange program that began in 1914 as a volunteer ambulance corps, is seeking families to host 11th-grade international exchange students for six to nine months during the upcoming school year. ...more

July 30, 2008

TRINITY -- Happy tails to you. Pet rescue group Heidi's Legacy has recruited some area volunteers to give rescued dogs temporary foster homes. They hope to sign up more people to help with what the group calls their "fur babies." ...more

July 30, 2008

Seeking Quieter Fourth As a resident of Hillsborough County all of my life and having lived in the Brandon area since 1963, I am requesting the county commissioners take a position against the elaborate neighborhood fireworks. ...more

July 8, 2008

Article Denies Problem Regarding "A Sober Look At Drunk Driving Stats" (Commentary, June 29): ...more

July 6, 2008

A Tampa police officer was justified in using a Taser to detain two teenagers found on a neighbor's property in Lithia without permission, although the officer's language was "less than professional," according to a police department review of the incident. ...more

June 26, 2008

Lowell Cain is one of the cowboys in the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office's agricultural unit. ...more

June 26, 2008

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office agricultural deputies show off new home where even stray buffalo can roam. ...more

June 25, 2008

TAMPA - An officer was justified in using a Taser to detain a neighbor's son and the teenager's friend, although the officer's language was "less than professional," according to a Tampa Police Department review of the incident. ...more

June 25, 2008

More than 120 children, ages 2 through 13, cast their lines in the Brandon Elks Lodge's fifth annual Hooked on Fishing Not Drugs event May 17 at Doug Holmberg's property on Gallagher Road in Dover. ...more

June 21, 2008

The e-mail all week and the comments on the blog have continued to focus on the recent column on the young woman lying in a hospital bed, the victim of a horrific beating and rape outside the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. The event itself was awful enough, but I think it is that sense of abandonment - true or untrue - that has stirred so many of you. Here are just a few of your thoughts. ...more

June 16, 2008